This page lists all known shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1895. All items appeared under the signature “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Contents
Overview
On the Gulf Shore (poem)
When the Apple-Blossoms Blow (poem)
A Baking of Gingersnaps (story)
Overview
In 1895, L.M. Montgomery published two poems (“On the Gulf Shore” and “When the Apple-Blossoms Blow”) and her first short story (“A Baking of Gingersnaps”), all of them using the alternate signatures Maud Eglington [sic] and Maud Cavendish. All three items appeared in The Ladies’ Journal, a Toronto magazine. Unfortunately, a full run of this magazine has not yet been located, so the bibliographical details cannot yet be verified.
On the Gulf Shore (poem)
[The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), February 1895, 2] (signed Maud Eglington [sic]). Scrapbook 7 (“Written April 1893 / Published February 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
First line: “Lap softly on the curving shore.”
Collected
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 61–62.
Notes
In her scrapbook, Montgomery strikes out in ink the second “g” in “Eglington,” indicating that her intended pseudonym was “Maud Eglinton.”
When the Apple-Blossoms Blow (poem)
[The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), June 1895] (signed Maud Cavendish). Scrapbook 7 (“Written January 1895 / Published ? 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
First line: “When the wheat on the hillsides is growing green.”
Reprinted
The American Messenger (New York), May 1910, 83 (as “When the Apple Blossoms Blow,” signed L.M. Montgomery).
A Baking of Gingersnaps (story)
[The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), July 1895] (signed Maud Cavendish). Scrapbook 7 (“Written February 1895 / Published July 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
Reprinted
The American Farmer (Baltimore), September 1895, 7.
Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati), 5 October 1910, 17–18 (signed L.M. Montgomery).
Collected
Around the Hearth: Tales of Home and Family, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Joanne Lebold (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2022), 9–21.